Cornerstone Christian School
119 Mihaere Drive, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North
- Content type:
- Institution
Fairfield School (Levin)
Clifton School (Bulls)
Massey Primary School
Murchison Area School
Central Normal School
201 Featherston Street, Palmerston North
- Content type:
- Institution
New Schools approach: From concept to reality
Published: 18 May 2021
ERO’s role is to ensure that New Zealanders can have confidence in our education system. ERO wants every school to be a great school and a great place to learn for every learner. We all acknowledge that schools are busy, complex entities with competing priorities and multiple demands on their time and resources. In order to support schools in this challenge, ERO is adopting a new way of working with the sector.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Early learning
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- News article
ERO releases new report on specialist day schools
Published: 13 Jun 2024
In a review of specialist day schools the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that the quality of education for students at specialist day schools is generally strong and that many of these schools are also playing a critical role as experts in supporting disabled learners in non-specialist school settings.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- News article
Built in, not bolted on - Evaluation of education at specialist day schools
Published: 13 Jun 2024
Specialist day schools provide education to disabled students with high and very high needs. The Education Review Office (ERO) recently completed individual reviews of the quality of education provision in all 27 specialist day schools across Aotearoa New Zealand. This report provides a summary of the findings of the 27 individual reviews.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
Missing Out: Why Aren’t Our Children Going to School?
Published: 10 Nov 2022
Going to school is critical for our children’s futures. The evidence is clear that every day of school matters, missing school leads to lower achievement. In New Zealand, learners are expected to attend school every day the school is open. And yet many don’t. New Zealand has lower attendance than other countries and alarmingly attendance is falling.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
A Guide for ECE Services on Children Starting School in Groups
Published: 30 May 2022
In Aotearoa, children have usually started school on their fifth birthday. These days, that’s not always the case. Since 2018, schools have had the option of cohort entry, where small groups of children start school together, at particular points during the year. This can change how children transition through an early learning service.
- Audience:
- Early learning
- Education
- Content type:
- Research
Schools: Evaluation for Improvement Approach: implementation case studies
Published: 29 Apr 2022
This report represents the final phase in the external evaluation of the initial implementation of the approach with the initial group of 75 schools. The intended audience for this report is ERO senior leadership team. It is intended that this report will be used formatively to consider opportunities for refinement and improvement of the approach.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
Education for Disabled Learners in Schools: Examples of Good Practice for Teachers
Published: 28 Sep 2022
ERO looked at how well the education system is supporting disabled learners in schools. This guide provides practical advice and real-life examples of good practice for teachers to support the inclusion and learning success of disabled learners at your school.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
Professional Learning and Development in Schools
Published: 02 Dec 2019
How well were school leaders determining Professional Learning and Development priorities and evaluating its impact?
ERO spoke with school leaders responsible for planning Professional Learning and Development (PLD) and looked at a variety of documents in 242 state or state-integrated schools (excluding kura) reviewed in Terms 3 and 4, 2018. ERO made an overall judgment about how well school leaders were determining PLD priorities and evaluating the impact of PLD.
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Schools
- School leaders
- Literacy
- International education
Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools
Published: 21 Mar 2016
Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools has been developed to help schools evaluate and improve student wellbeing. It highlights the importance of schools promoting the wellbeing of all students as well as the need for systems, people and initiatives to respond to wellbeing concerns for students who need additional support.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Wellbeing
- Mental health
- Resilience
- Whanaungatanga
- Hauora
- Health and Physical Education
- Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB)
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Schools
Published: 19 Jan 2021
To understand what the challenges of Covid-19 were in 2020 and how schools responded, the Education Review Office spoke to schools and surveyed over 2500 principals and teachers across the country. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted students, teachers and schools, how schools responded and what they learnt, and the challenges schools expect they might face in future alert level changes.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Schools
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Alternative Education: Schools and Providers
Published: 30 May 2011
Includes two reports: Secondary Schools and Alternative Education and Good Practice in Alternative Education
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Alternative education (AE)
- Secondary
Raising achievement in primary schools
Published: 30 Jun 2014
This national report presents the findings of how well a sample of primary schools were taking actions to increase the number of students achieving 'at' or 'above' national standards.The findings show that half of the schools in the evaluation had used deliberate actions to support students to accelerate progress and sustain achievement.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Raising achievement
- Primary
- Equitable outcomes
- Accelerated learning
- Evaluation indicators
- Education outcomes
Raising achievement in secondary schools
Published: 30 Jun 2014
This report documents the findings of ERO’s 2013 evaluation of how well 40 secondary schools analysed and responded to their NCEA data.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Raising achievement
- Secondary
- Māori student achievement